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@itsolelehmann fair enough. time goes by faster than you think! ;)

@studioanf my son is only 9 months, so not really tbh

i've lived in cyprus for the last 5 years here's my (more nuanced) view of pros and cons: the pros: 1. people are insanely friendly. people genuinely talk to you in cafes and everyone is SUPER sweet to our baby 2. tax status is the best option in europe, both in terms of tax rate and flexibility (you only need to be there 60days/year) 3. weather is elite from april - june and september - december 4. there are few distractions, it's a great place to lock in, work out and work (but more in the cons section..) 5. living costs are decent (though been rising A LOT). 6. growing expat community (mainly germans in paphos, more russians in limassol) 7. slowly growing availability of organic food sources (still in its infancy tohugh) 8. pro business mindset (compared to other european countries, not to US lol) 9. I love the sea in cyprus (great colour and very clear!) , and they also have mountains too hike in troodos mountains 10. easy and fast to get any doctors appointment (and cheap!) 11. very safe, I would always leave my backpack with my car keys out in the open while swimming etc. low crime rate is awesome. 12. everyone speaks english! and very well. now let's get to the cons: 1. it's very hard to maintain friendships with the expats because MANY of them will be traveling outside of cyprus for 70% of the year. I personally want a place where most peopel stay permanently, not only a couple of months. It's ok if your 24 and nomading (which im not). 2. the sun is extreme in juli, august. especially with a small child thats kinda fucked and hard to navigate (UV index 12...) 3. it often still feels like 2018. in a good AND a bad way. there's not much to do compared to other places where I lived before. 4. you need a car (despite what people been telling you on X). sidewalks are often times fucked up, especially if you are pushing a stroller around 5. culture, music, art scene is extremely small. I love these things so it does matter to me. 6. there is no real big city in cyprus. something i'm genuinely missing 7. there's close to 0 significant companies here, no good events, tech ecosystem is very very small (despite what people try to tell you on here). on a world scale, cyprus doesn't matter at all 8. a lot of "entrepreneurs" coming here are coaches or actually employed to someone. I have met 10x more interesting entrepreneurs in big european cities in a days vs in 6 months in cyprus. there are some but it's far from a "tech hub". might be skill issue on my end lol 9. there's a lot of dodgy shit going on with casinos, russian money in cyprus. but I guess that happens in many countries 10. its an island, so everything needs to get imported. many shops don't ship to cyprus. there is no amazon (only if you order from a different country + pay the shipping 11. cyprus is very far away from the pulse of culture, it mostly feels like every trend is happening 5 years later here 12. lots of mold in almost EVERY house. cheap build quality and a lot of cookie cutter ugly investment properties 13. very close to the wars in the middle east 14. there no great architecture in any city my tldr: we're looking at other options in europe right now, but we might stay here and just move to limassol but a kind of house I want is probably 6-9k/month so it's expensive af there (over 2x-3x from paphos) personally, I mainly miss the vibe and drive of a more metropolitan city but that's just me! the main factor I don't like is how so many people only stay a couple of months in cyprus, making it hard to compound and friendships but people like @marclou moving here def make me want to stay more :D

@dnlklr @AdamLehrerSP 😅

@AdamLehrerSP Wasn’t she supposed to have alopecia??? Stolen ass valor

Can’t believe I’m commenting on this but her husband is one of the most successful, influential and bankable movie stars of my life time and you can see she really is gleeful in her ability to make a powerful man feel small and, unfortunately, her disposition isn’t that rare

@dreamingtulpa these are amazing 🫡

it's literally cursed lmao

Stepped into a faraday cage and my internal monologue disappeared

@E_Boeminghaus wer könnte es ihnen verübeln?

Erinnert ihr euch noch an "Made for Germany"! powered by Friedrich Merz! Ursprünglich wurden 631 Milliarden Euro von 61 Unternehmen zugesagt, diese Zahl ist durch den Zuwachs auf über 100 Mitglieder (Stand Ende 2025) auf rund 735 Milliarden Euro angestiegen, die bis 2028 investiert werden sollen. Was haben sich alle in Berlin gefreut. Total gefreut! Leider auch kompletter ein Rohrkrepierer! Mercedes, Zalando, BMW, VW ... alle waren sie da, alle investieren lieber im Ausland und fast alle bauen in Deutschland Jobs ab. “Made far far away from Germany”

You're a 15 second sliding context window with the working memory of a goldfish, your long term memory is mainly fake, and it's a minor miracle you can get out of the door in the morning.

@sarahbadr 😂

@thomastraum check for the synthetic fiber content. 80% should be cotton at least. fruit of the loom now sells 40% synthetic instead of 20% like they used to and it feels gross.

Dumping nike pro and all that tech gear for some old school gym hoodies. randomaccessmemory.cc/collections/pm…

Aphex Twin’s Personal Tank (1995)

@thomastraum @sytaylor @perplexity_ai @Plaid this is the way

@sytaylor @perplexity_ai @Plaid no offense but I sent the screenshot of this to my openclaw and it just rebuild it

Perplexity just gave every retail investor a Bloomberg Terminal. For free. Watch this demo. It's wild. @perplexity_ai connects to brokerage accounts via @Plaid and builds a custom investment dashboard in seconds. Perplexity Computer pulls from 40+ live finance tools like: - SEC filings - FactSet - S&P Global - Coinbase - LSEG. 75% of Perplexity's paying users were already asking finance questions monthly. The demand existed before the product did. But you couldn't DO anything with that information. --- Now you can connect it to your data for better insights. Connect your brokerage accounts through Plaid, and suddenly an AI agent can see your actual holdings across multiple institutions — then query institutional-grade data against them. "Show me my sector concentration risk" or "How exposed am I to rising rates" — answered in seconds with your real portfolio, not hypotheticals. --- It still can't trade for you, though. That's a deliberate regulatory design choice that lets Perplexity move fast while every neobank and robo-advisor is still waiting for compliance sign-off. Fintech companies spent a decade building Plaid as pipes for fintech apps to read your bank data. But I'm much more interested in when we give them to AI

@billyrennekamp very soon the krankenkasse will start asking if the offspring is making any money

The German gov't just mailed my newborn a tax number

@harmvddorpel sehr gute farben

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@thomastraum one now has all the tools in the world to find and create a new aethetic. yet, people choose to recreate 10 year old man vs machine nike idents. it baffles the mind.

the creative CG industry is so bankrupt of ideas that people do fake Nike Shoe CG ads and Chanel Beauty Cream images as "unofficial" portfolio showcase projects...

@poellll you need to chop the beans with it too, no grinder

i mix my coffee with a tactical knife, sugar is for the weak

@thomastraum @Shopify nice

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